Utilizing Zoom Breakout Rooms to Expose Preclerkship Medical Students to TeleMedicine Encounters.

ABSTRACT: Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) presented various challenges as the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) campus closed to students in response to COVID-19 mitigation efforts in late March 2020. While some classes transitioned easily to virtual platforms already in place, such as learning management systems and the lecture recording software, other classes that involved coordinated group activities did not have as many suitable alternatives. One College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) class utilized the teleconferencing tool Zoom. Zoom's breakout rooms and waiting room features were used to facilitate a clinical interviewing skills lab and telemedicine-type encounter with standardized patients. We were able to successfully designate groups of approximately 10 student

SUBMITTER: Rucker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556762 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature